His Hallowed Name

"A good name is to be desired more than great wealth" Proverbs 22:1

For some time now, G-d has been speaking to me about His Name. Over the years of studying to understand the Jewish Roots of the Faith, I have learned that He sends direct and specific messages to me about what He wants me to learn personally...and then share with others...this is certainly the case with His Name...

I began to notice the signs that there was something He was directing me to last Spring...a series of books began to come across my radar screen...they would come into view in different ways...on a Facebook page...in my morning devotional times...in the Publix Book Carousel by the Deli...in Airport Book Carousels...I ordered the first one of them: Intimate Moments with the Hebrew Names of G-d by Barrie Cae Mallin...then another one...then another one...then another one...until I had 4 books about His Name...they were all stacked up on my kitchen table with my daily devotional books and Bibles...I began to read Barrie Cae's Name of G-d one each AM and write the Hebrew letters for that particular Name of G-d underneath the English translation as a means of practicing my very limited Hebrew...

I knew that He wanted me to study these books and learn His Names...and I prayed about it and thought about it...but did nothing else about it all summer and fall...blaming the fact that I was so swamped with work and travel and all that entailed that I didn't have time for such a focused study...but I couldn't stop thinking about this subject and knew that He wanted me to delve into this...the subject matter would come up repeatedly...nearly every week something would "hit me" that dealt with His Name...as 2010 drew to a close I knew that I could no longer put this off...two final pieces of the puzzle were sent to me: the calendar that I use yearly is from The Galilee Experience...a Jewish Roots of the Faith Ministry in Israel...the order form for the 2011 Calendar came across my desktop...it is simply entitled: The Names of G-d...and each of the 12 Months is identified by a different name of G-d with beautiful artwork to correspond...then I read of a book by Keith Johnson entitled: His Hallowed Name Revealed Again...and I said "YES, L-rd" I will do as You have been instructing me for these past 10 months...

That is why you are getting this first blog of 2011: I am going to share His Names through this blog...one at a time...allowing each of you who read this to dwell on these Names in your own quiet time...it is time that those of us who call Him our Father show the respect and reverence due Him and His Name...and learn more about him through the study of each of these marvellous names by which He is known - or by which He calls Himself! After all, a person's name means something...describes a particular character trait of that individual...reveals who he or she really is...Our Creator G-d knows each of us by our names...shouldn't we know Him by His Names?

Tonight I will quote from "His Hallowed Name Revealed Again" by Keith Johnson...

Open your English Bible and look at the first 4 words of B'resheet/Genesis 1:3-'Let there be Light' ... Are you amazed and moved to worship? This English translation conceals the connection to the Hebrew Name of our Heavenly Father that is revealed in 1,574 pages of the HEBREW Bible...in these 1,574 pages of the HEBREW Bible there are 6,828 times that the name Yud Hey Vav Hey appears...this means that you can come across His Holy Name an average of 4 times per page of the Hebrew Bible...

This same Hebrew Name was taught to Moshe while standing at the Burning Bush...this same Hebrew Name was taught to millions of Jewish Men and Women standing at the base of Mt. Sinai when HaShem SPOKE HIS NAME for all to hear...in Sh'mot/Exodus 20:2 He says: I am The L-rd Your G-d"...do you see this

This same Hebrew Name was spoken in Hebrew by Yeshua who taught people on a mountainside 2000 years ago to pray: "Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be YOUR NAME"...

This same Hebrew Name that was introduced in Heaven and taught on earth was placed in JERUSALEM and is still there today..."In THIS HOUSE and in JERUSALEM which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I WILL PLACE MY NAME FOREVER." M'lakhim Bet/2 Kings 21:7

As you think on this first of His Names, know that He is ZEALOUS OVER ZION and DWELLS in JERUSALEM!

Sing Praises to Yud Hey Vav Hey who dwells in Zion! Psalm 9:11